Just like plants outside, houseplants also have different growth patterns depending on the season. Despite the fact that we have a good temperature in our home, the plants do grow more slowly since it's autumn now. In fact, it's almost winter already. Time flies...
I've seen the growth of most of my indoor plants slow down in the weeks after summer. And not only that, I've also seen a couple of my plants getting really unhappy. This was a reason for me to investigate what was wrong.
For instance my Calathea Mokoyama, a plant with beautiful patterns on its leaves. I noticed a couple of leaves were turning brown. As I had discovered a custom GPT specified in houseplants on ChatGPT (Planty), I asked it what could be the cause.
I'm really enthusiastic about this new AI tool. As you can see it came up with a few suggestions. I cannot measure the humidity, but I do spray the plant a couple of times a week.
I pay attention to the watering and the pot has a good drainage. I also have extra perlite in the soil for drainage. I only use rain water to water my indoor plants.
But light could be the problem. I had put my plant in the window sill. The window is facing the north, but it was in direct sunlight.
So I decided to move the plant to the middle of the living room.
And it's actually doing quite well over there. I had removed the brown leaves and it looks pretty happy again.
As you can see it's developing two new leaves too that will replace the ones I had to cut off. My Planty AI companion tells me this is just part of the plant’s normal cycle.
I moved this plant from the living room to the window sill by the way since Planty told me that this plant needs a lot of light.
After this I checked up on all my plants to see which aren't happy with direct sunlight and moved them away from the windows.
Below you see an overview of a couple of my plants. To the right you see my Philodendron Imperial Green. I'm really proud on this one. I had split the motherplant in three and all three of them are growing good. And this one is the best. It's growing so big with its nice large, dark green leaves. This plant seems to grow new leaves every two weeks. As if splitting the plant has given it a boost.
On the left is my little greenhouse with my cuttlings on water. Most of the cuttlings are from my Scindapsus. They are starting to grow roots, but they haven't developed enough yet to move them into soil.
Scindapsus
Most of the Scindapsus cuttlings come from my motherplant which is really growing big. I've mentioned it before, but I have received this plant as a cutling in February this year. The plant has been growing to fast in just 8 months. And I even have taken some cutlings from it too. But I've read that taking cutlings also stimulates the plant to grow more.
Pitcher plant
The pitchers on my pitcher plant have had their best time. They are slowly starting to dy off. I think it won't be long until I lose both of them.
According to Planty this is normal considering the lifecyle of the plant. Pitchers will turn brown after a couple of months.
Planty also advises to remove the pitchers to stimulate growth of new ones.
This will ensure that the energy of the plant will go to developing new pitchers. And new ones are on their way. They are quite small, but they are coming. I'll keep an eye on them to see how they develop.
Ficus Cyathistipula
Another plant that got a new place is my Ficus. A plant that I have grown from a cutling a couple of months ago. It had grown quite a few leaves that had grown pretty big already. Since I want this plant to grow more of a bigger and higher stem I removed the lower leaves. I also placed it into the window sill since this plant does like direct light.
I hope my adjustments to the plant will result in a higher and thicker stem. We'll see how it will develop futher.
Pickle plant
One of the other plants I moved into the window sill is my pickple plant.
I had cut this from a plant I had given away a couple of months ago and put it into soil with perlite recently. It had been growing quite nicely, but I the top seems to become a bit brown now. I'm not overwatering it and it likes the direct sunlight it gets, so I don't know what is wrong. Maybe there isn't anything wrong and will these 'pickle leaves' turn green in a while.
I'll keep you posted!
What kind of indoor plants do you all have? And do you also try to propagate them?
Let me know in the comments!
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